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minus-squareWoodScientistlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up109·12 hours agoThere are fossilized humans. Fossilization really doesn’t take that much time, geologically speaking; it just requires very specific conditions.
minus-squareobstbert@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·6 hours agoAlso makes you wonder what fossils they mean, of the same species or then already extinct ones. Because according to a quick Wikipedia search the oldest hominid fossils (?) are something like 7 millions years old That’s much much shorter than dinosaurs where around but hey " hominins are around long enough to unearth hominin fossils"!
minus-squareCopythis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·11 hours agoAbout how much time are we talkin here?
minus-squareTonyTonyChopper@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 hours agoWhere are the other drugs going?
minus-squaresheogorath@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·18 minutes agoI don’t know, swear to God
minus-squarevaultdweller013linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·9 hours agoI know there’s some animal fossils in New Zealand that date back to its colonization by the ancestors of the Maori, so about the 1400s. Though I don’t know if they are partially or fully fossilized.
minus-squareBjörn Tantau@swg-empire.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·9 hours agoYour teeth can fossilise while they’re still in your mouth. We call it tartar.
There are fossilized humans. Fossilization really doesn’t take that much time, geologically speaking; it just requires very specific conditions.
Also makes you wonder what fossils they mean, of the same species or then already extinct ones.
Because according to a quick Wikipedia search the oldest hominid fossils (?) are something like 7 millions years old
That’s much much shorter than dinosaurs where around but hey " hominins are around long enough to unearth hominin fossils"!
About how much time are we talkin here?
Human species before H. Sapiens
Where are the bodies?
Where’s Rachel!?
Where are the other drugs going?
I don’t know, swear to God
I know there’s some animal fossils in New Zealand that date back to its colonization by the ancestors of the Maori, so about the 1400s. Though I don’t know if they are partially or fully fossilized.
Your teeth can fossilise while they’re still in your mouth. We call it tartar.